IIRC, at the end of the film, the TV show becomes about him getting caught in dangerous situations every week (mountain climbing, floods, car wrecks, etc.) and fighting off the rescue workers sent to help him.

Sir (putting hand over eye and looking both at Bob and to Bob's right) Well bang goes his application then. (he tears up form) Now let me fill you in. I'm leading this expedition and we're going to climb both peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro.Bob I thought there was only one peak, sir.Sir (getting up, putting one hand over one eye again and going to large map of Africa on wall and peering at it at point-blank range) Well, that'll save a bit of time. Well done. Now the object of this expedition is to see if we can find any traces of last year's expedition.Bob Last year's expedition?Sir Yes, my brother was leading that, they were going to build a bridge between the two peaks, (looks at map with one hand over eye) My idea I'm afraid.

I was up in that area when the storm rolled in, out on the white mountains. Trust me, it wasn't a freak storm; two days before it rained/snowed, and the sky had been gloomy, dark, and foreboding leading up to it. Thus, the group I was with changed our original plans from a hiking trip in the eastern sierras to the alpine desert of the white mountains. The people who plodded along were dumbasses who didn't know how to read a weather map, plain and simple.

There have been cases when "stranded" climbers have sued the Park Service for not offering a rescue in a timely manner. I say these guys made their own bed, let them lay in it. If they somehow make it, they'll think twice about doing it again. I think I saw somewhere that these days all climbers in the park have to sign a waiver or release absolving the Park Service of any liability.

I just finished reading a book on the Eiger mountain in Switzerland (Eiger: Wall of Death) and for a while they made climbers hand in their passports before they started climbing the wall. As the local sherriff said "It can be hard to identify a body after it's fallen more than a mile".

I think by the end it had averaged out to a death every seven pages.

More than one or two expeditions were delayed or turned back by finding shredded bits of former climbers as they went up...

When Clint Eastwood filmed THE EIGER SANCTION, three or four of the professional climbers working on the movie fell to their deaths,........roped together. The scene was left in the movie but not the part where they hit the ground below.

These climbers (NOT HIKERS) cannot go back the way they came.. the only way off the mountain is up. The cost of a rescue off el cap would be easily in the tens of thousands. These cimbers who refused help were just trying to reduce rescue costs and save us tax money! Most climbers would have done the same thing in that situation.